[1176] Burnet I. 262-3.
[1177] Rymer XIV., XV.
[1178] 37 Hen. VIII. c. 4 (Parl. Hist. I. 561).
[1179] Parl. Hist. I. 537. Such hospitals, chantries, &c., as were spared by Henry VIII. were speedily swept away, as soon as Edward VI. succeeded to the throne, by the act 1 Edw. VI. c. 14 (Parl. Hist. I. 583).
[1180] This may readily be considered no exaggeration. A letter from John Freeman to Cromwell values at £80,000 the lead alone stripped from the dismantled houses (Suppression of Monasteries, p. 290).
[1181] Such is the substance of a memorandum in Henry’s own hand-writing (Suppression of Monasteries, No. 131, p. 263).
[1182] 31 Hen. VIII. c. 9 (Parl. Hist. I. 540).
[1183] Burnet I. 300.
[1184] Strype, Eccles. Memor. I. 345.
[1185] See letters of the Lord Chancellor Audley and the learned Sir Thomas Elyot to Cromwell.—Strype, Eccles. Memor. I. 263-5.